Editing 1939 (section)

===May===
{{main|May 1939}}
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] succeeds [[Maxim Litvinov]], as Soviet Foreign Commissar.
* [[May 6]] &ndash; German anti-Nazi [[Carl Friedrich Goerdeler]] tells the British government that the German and Soviet governments are secretly beginning a rapprochement, with the aim of dividing Eastern Europe between them. Goerdeler also informs the British of German economic problems which he states threaten the survival of the Nazi regime, and advises that if a firm stand is made for Poland, then Hitler will be deterred from war.
* [[May 9]] &ndash; Spain leaves the [[League of Nations]].
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Lina Medina]], a 5-year-old [[Peru]]vian girl, gives birth to a baby boy, becoming the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.<ref>{{cite news|title=Six decades later, world's youngest mother awaits aid |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020827/asp/foreign/story_1140311.asp |work=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |location=Kolkata |date=27 August 2002 |access-date=14 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722030008/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020827/asp/foreign/story_1140311.asp |archive-date=22 July 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[May 17]]
** [[King George VI]] and [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]] of the United Kingdom arrive in [[Quebec City]], to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by [[Monarchy of Canada|Canada's monarch]].
** The British government issues the [[White Paper of 1939]], sharply restricting Jewish immigration to [[Mandatory Palestine]].
** [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], and [[Finland]] refuse Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hershel Edelheit|title=History Of Zionism: A Handbook And Dictionary|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2000|page=366}} {{isbn|9780813329819}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] &ndash; The [[Hòa Hảo]] religious sect is established in Vietnam, by [[Huỳnh Phú Sổ]].
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Pan American Airways]] begins transatlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its [[Boeing 314]] [[flying boat]] ''Yankee Clipper'' from [[Port Washington, New York]], to [[Marseille]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Clark MacKenzie|title=Canada and international civil aviation, 1932-1948|url=https://archive.org/details/canadainternatio0000mack|url-access=registration|year=1989|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-5828-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/canadainternatio0000mack/page/72 72]}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] &ndash; Germany and Italy sign the [[Pact of Steel]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles T. O'Reilly|title=Forgotten Battles: Italy's War of Liberation, 1943-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LBvZPXmmqoC&pg=PA339|year=2001|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-0195-7|pages=339|access-date=November 10, 2019|archive-date=July 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724113806/https://books.google.com/books?id=2LBvZPXmmqoC&pg=PA339|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] &ndash; The [[White Paper of 1939]] is ratified by the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]], acting as the governing policy for [[Mandatory Palestine]]  from 1939 to 1948.<ref>{{Citation |last=Erakat |first=Noura |title=Chapter 2. PERMANENT OCCUPATION |date=2019-04-23 |work=Justice for Some |pages=61–94 |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781503608832-005/html?lang=en |access-date=2025-04-11 |publisher=Stanford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1515/9781503608832-005 |isbn=978-1-5036-0883-2}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] &ndash; The first issue of ''[[Fashizmi]]'' is published in [[Tirana]], [[Albania]].
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Albania]]n [[fascist]] leader [[Tefik Mborja]] is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.